How to Add Subtitles to Windows Media Player and VLC Media Player

How many times has it happened that you didn’t understand that Marlon Brando dialogue in The Godfather? Quite often, right? and that is where subtitles comes handy. You can download subtitles for any movie or TV shows from internet but wondering how would you play movie along with subtitles? No worries, here we guide you how to add/play subtitles with the movie on different media players.

Windows Media Player 12

Assuming you are running Windows 7, Windows Media Player 12 is the default media player which comes with this OS. If you don’t like to install third party media player and comfortable with WMP 12 then follow below steps to add subtitles to WMP 12.

For some unknown reasons Windows Media Player 12 fails to play subtitles even if you enable the subtitles from settings option. And fix to this issue is DirectVobSub codes which will add the subtitles filter for WMP 12.

1. Download and Install DirectVobSub respective to your Windows OS. You must install DirectVobSub version 2.39 and not 2.14. (Please note version 2.41 of DirectVobSub has some issue and fails to play subtitles for .avi video files)

2. Now make sure to save subtitles and video/movie in the same folder with the same name,